Holy War - First Pics

[Azzarc]

Sweet!

I Love the HMS Bulldog.  How about more pics of your ship?

[argsilverson]

Some link of the french Circassian cavalry:
http://legioncavalerie.free.fr/fr/collet.htm

[possibly my memory did not serve me correct about the colours!]

[Hitman]

You have some really nice terrain and figures. Some of the extras like the smoke and flames in the windows really look great...very nice touches. The table looks like a lot of fun and the game does as well. Thanks for sharing!!

[Ignatieff]

The shelling of Krasnovodsk


The Adrianstani's run amok amongst the ruins of Camp Josephine


The fight for the bridges - Whites, White brigands and Reds battle it out


The fall of Krasnovodsk - Enver Pasha's hordes enter the City


Von Stauffenbergs International force prepares to assault


The U89 surfaces for a kill

[Stauffenberg]

For the record - our use of the flamethrower was as the result of the murder of two of our brave stormtroopers whilst attempting to remove the occupants from harms way.
After their deaths we withdrew and requested the occupants to vacate the building, this request was met from within with a withering burst of fire causing a further casualty.
We were left with no alternative but to clear the building by force. (It was quite a successful trial for this new piece of kit and I am sure many more opportunities will present for its deployment in the future.)

A subsequent investigation has cleared all those involved of any unlawful actions.

Von Stauffenberg

[Captain Blood]

Too too much 

The ship and the city are particularly magnificent...


Are some of the larger civic buildings of Krasnovodsk from the Colonial Steamboat chap? Or from the other guy on eBay that always seems to have these handbuilt mid-eastern adobe fort / palace / mosque complexes on the go?
They have that look, although actually look rather better in close-up than on eBay.

(Or perhaps this is because I've got it entirely wrong, and these are lovely pieces of homemade scenery constructed by your own group of chums... )

[Ignatieff]

Buildings in the town are mostly off e-bay, with some of the smaller ones scratch built for us by Gary Chalk.  Walls and gate are commercially available (or at least were about six years ago) originally from Ian Weekly.  Thanks again for all the kind comments.  We do try and have fun, and I do believe in cinematic terrain, so it does seem to work.

[Driscoles]

Thanks for sharing the pics with us.
The table, miniatures and vehicles look very nice.
I always enjoy your pics.
Thanks
Björn

[argsilverson]

Again: Superb!

[what more can we add?]

The U89 [btw is it schratchbuilt?] is the submarine that you have written: don't ask how she managed to be there? or found an explanation for the way she managed to be transported there.

[Malamute]

Absolutely stunning stuff. The terrain and buildings are superb and the figure painting is equally impressive.
 
Wonderful!

[Ignatieff]

Sub is scratch built by Von Stauffenberg.  The British navy actually transported a number of subs to the Caspian on railways through Persia, so there is some rough(ish) precedent at work here.  A better quesion would be how they managed to transport an early Dreadnaught!

[argsilverson]

A better quesion would be how they managed to transport an early Dreadnaught!

Thanks!

very simple:
they actually did it by transporting Mimi & Toutou  from England to lake Tanganyika, via Capetown/South Africa.
The task was difficult. They send several prefabricated parts via steam vessel from Plymouth (I think) to Capetown. Then via rail to the borders of Rhodesia and then several hundreds of km via manpower and oxenpower, the parts of the  two vessels reached lake Tanganyika. Assembled in situ and entered service [which proved a succesful one].
The vessels, ofcourse, were smaller but the distance was far further. Concider also more difficulties like: lack of roads, lack of enough numbers of animals and men, malaria, tse-tse flies, animals plagues etc etc etc.

Even Stanley managed to transport a similar small vessel to be used at his explorations!
Jules verne also wrote something about it.

So, back to our topic:
Since the british were capapble to do it in the middle of a world war, have the knowledge to achieve such a task at a larger scale in a time, which was not so turbulent like middle of WW1! [if I remember well your adventures are dated aroun 1926].
Thus, HMS Bulldog was fabricated in smaller parts. Transported to the Black Sea ports by sea. Then loaded on the rail to Tbilsi (?). Sorry to Baku!
Re-assembled at the coasts of Caspian sea and voila , you have it. 
Alternative ways of transportation are also existed. They could use the Persian territory and rail system to transport it and finally reassembled could be done at the secret british base on persian coast of the caspian sea!
Remember that British empire had more facilities (incl. heavy industrial ones) in the territories south of caspian Sea!
here is a map of the Caspian Sea:
 http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/caucasus_cntrl_asia_pol_00.jpg

Submarines are more difficult, since they need more care in their assembly and more tests in order to ensure water tightness!

Dear Ignatieff,
Its is only a small discussion, trying to add details to some very lovely stories and excellent eyecandy games you are producing!
Do you have some more photos and technical details on the scratchbuilding of the submarine??? I always wantesd to make one to enrich my Hochseeflotte

[argsilverson]

I found a better and easier way to "transport" HMS Bulldog to the Caspian Sea:

HMS Bulldog was a special vessel. Built to sail in both deep sea and and rivers:
So, sailed to the Black Sea, then entered Sea of Azov, sailed the Don river, and entered Volga River.
No difficulty to be present in Caspian Sea !
[Let's assume that the Don-Volga channel was built in time.
I think it was constructed at a later stage, during Stalin time. I'm not sure]   

[Ignatieff]

I found a better and easier way to "transport" HMS Bulldog to the Caspian Sea:

HMS Bulldog was a special vessel. Built to sail in both deep sea and and rivers:
So, sailed to the Black Sea, then entered Sea of Azov, sailed the Don river, and entered Volga River.
No difficulty to be present in Caspian Sea !
[Let's assume that the Don-Volga channel was built in time.
I think it was constructed at a later stage, during Stalin time. I'm not sure]  

Splendid Argsilverson, splendid!  Thanks for the links.  I'll ask Stauffenberg to provide construction details (he also built the trampsteamer (SS Grizelda) in the pics).  You couldnt point me in the direction of a map of the Hindu Kush and High Pamirs by any chance?  I suspect that is where next The League will coagulate!

[argsilverson]

the map I found is from:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html

where there is a lot more maps, maybe you can find what you need.
Also: try Google search and you may find better geophysical maps.
At some earlier stage of my interests in the BoB regions I had found some interesting maps. I will take some time to search and if I have good results I will in the LAF.
 

In the meantime:
Pleaase more of your extremely nice pictures and stories!
Remember, still I have not seen those caviar supplies, that were illegally exported and reached Paris, so the formation of the world famous delicatessen firm  "Havarnoussian" was possible!